Release Date: May 21, 1975 Wide
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Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape his ghetto surroundings. He does so by becoming a high school basketball star--and the idol of the other youngsters in his community. On the verge of starting college on a scholarship, Cornbread is mistakenly killed by a police officer. Keith Wilkes, who plays the title role, was in real life an all-American at UCLA. Cornbread, Earl and Me, which was based upon Ronald Fair's novel Hog Butcher, marked the big screen debut
May 21, 1975 Wide
HBO Video
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Though a few overwrought scenes are reminiscent of a TV movie, on the whole this is an involving and touching film.
In a neat piece of cinematic symmetry, one-and-a-half-decades before Larry Fishburne as Furious Styles tells his son "any fool with a d**k can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children" , little Laurence Fishburne III is getting some wisdom on becoming that man from his mom. Slightly cheesy drama about
October 10, 2009
Super Reviewer
This film was something that hung around on the TiVo forever, but when I finally watched it I was immediately struck by the desire to run out and buy a copy, as it's a very well made look at the corruption that rears its head when a rising basketball star and neighborhood inspiration is shot down due to a case of
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